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by mumblemumble
1516 days ago
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I don't really use Go, I think mostly because I'm not in the target market, but this article's complaints (and some of these comments) actually got me thinking that I should take another look at it. A long time ago, in a Haskell community chat, I saw someone dismiss Go with a pithy comment along the lines of, "Go isn't a programming language, it's a DSL for writing network services." I think I may need to re-assess that comment as actually being a really compelling elevator pitch for the language. Armed with that perspective, I'm seeing why I wasn't terribly convinced by the article's specific complaints about Go. "Traditional IPC is a PITA and forces you toward talking over a socket? Well, yes, exactly. That's kind of the whole point." Sometimes I wonder if we are all suffering unnecessarily because of our incessant demanding that all languages try to be all things to all people. |
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Programmers aren't. Programmers are building stuff and talking about that. Opinion bloggers are suffering for clicks.